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DeWitt told a conference called by the National Science Foundation that the Russians "have a better and wider base" at the high school level to promote higher scientific training, and that the 1.5 million who were graduated this year "had five times more hours in scientific subjects than the minimum stipulated for entrance to a school the caliber of M.I.T...
...these papers in Gen Ed A would insure a wider selection of topic and a deeper concern for performance. Thus there will be a better basis upon which to evaluate and criticize writing style. Not all the shorter assignments need be discarded; a proper balance might be to require three papers written for other courses and three of the shorter type now assigned in Gen Ed A. For many students who find writing an almost traumatic experience this would have the added advantage of decreasing the number of papers written during the freshman year, thus making more time available...
...pfennig-pinching budgets, and Central Bank Boss Wilhelm Vocke. keeping alert hands on the nation's interest rates, have helped immensely in preserving the federal republic against inflationary dangers. But Erhard created the proper climate, bulled away the obstacles. Keeping clear of technical intricacies, he preaches the wider doctrine of expanding productivity, the Soziale Marktwirtschaft that might be translated loosely as "free enterprise alive to social responsibilities." It means, he once remarked only half jokingly, "The state can interfere if it is absolutely necessary...
Workers are switching from motorcycles (sales fell 67% below 1952) to cars (up 270% in five years). They are eating so well again that in new cinemas, carpenters had to build the seats a couple of inches wider. People are buying 75% more refrigerators than in 1953; washing-machine sales are twice the volume of 1955. Last summer in 86 campaign speeches Erhard proclaimed: "I don't have to make any promises. I have kept them all in advance. Just look around you and see for yourselves." Erhard received such an ovation in Socialist Nürnberg that...
...leviathans will be 131 ft. shorter but a full 16 ft. wider than the Queen Elizabeth, world's biggest passenger liner. Though none of the ships will be able to squeeze through the Suez or Panama Canals, they will cost far less to operate while hauling far more cargo than smaller ships, even though forced to take longer routes...